From Brian Krebs’ KrebsonSecurity website: On Jan. 19, the ICRC disclosed the compromise of servers hosting the personal information of more than 500,000 people receiving services from the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The ICRC said the hacked servers contained data relating to the organization’s Restoring Family Links services, which works to reconnect people … Read more
The Zero Day Initiative has a blog post to discuss the Top 5 Bugs submitted in 2021. In essence the good hackers try to find bugs or problems in software which would allow an attacker to perform functions that should not be done. An example from the Pwn2Own 2021 blog post: Hi, I am Orange … Read more
Threatpost has the stories – “China Suspected of News Corp Cyberespionage Attack” media giant news Corp was attacked with BEC (the most likely method of attack) Business Email Compromise. Here is an excellent FBI explanation of BEC. In a BEC scam, criminals send an email message that appears to come from a known source making … Read more
